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Not to mention that those who have children in competitive fields are not able to nurture their children due to time commitments. The same effect appears to be true for adults in most of the service industries as well albeit for different reasons.

I'm not sure how the government could intervene in these situations except to make these fields less competitive such that employees have more bargaining power.

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In a normally functioning system, intelligent individuals should naturally have more bargaining power, because their skills are more in-demand. However, medical residency is set up in such a way that your bargaining power is delayed until after you finish, because if you leave you are basically blacklisted from the whole field. This benefits the people who have made it out the other side, who are also the people in a position to effect change

There is actually a specific exemption for this system written into anti trust law, so you can be sure it's terrible.

I don't think that matters a lot, since outcome is mostly nature not nurture. Good nurture improves your relationship with children and that's about it.

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